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Euclid manufacturer H.C. Starck Inc. to lay off 67 employees

H.C. Starck Inc. is laying off 67 employees at its manufacturing facility at 1250 E. 222nd St. in Euclid.
The company is owned by German.-based H.C. Starck Group, a supplier of technology metals and advanced chemicals. It will lay off the employees — most of whom hold manufacturing positions — starting Jan. 21, 2013, and extending through Sept. 30, 2013, according to a notice filed today with the state under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act. (You can read the notice here.)
Affected employees are not represented by unions and will not be offered bumping rights, the notice stated. Employees will be offered severance benefits.
Chet Shubert, a human resources representative at H.C. Starck, declined to comment on the layoffs.
H.C. Starck Inc., which is based in Newton, Mass., operates one other manufacturing site in the United States, in Coldwater, Mich.